It's been slightly over a year since the heart surgery, and I'm still here. I still need to lose weight, though, and I probably need to be considerably more social than I am. There's a lot of things that need to be done, such as cleaning the apartment, moving things around, keeping up with my reading, and maybe watching some of the video backlog ( ( Read more... )

My new glasses arrived today, which makes me very happy. As it doubtless should, given that this is my first pairs of glasses I've had in over a decade, thanks to the storied history of my eyes ( Read more... )

I've signed on to Patreon, experimentally, and with great uncertainty. Some few seem to do extremely well with it, but others...well, others seem to sputter on launch, no matter how much prior groundwork they've laid. Indeed, some seem never to launch at all, their pitches lying moribund and nary a dollar's support in sight ( Read more... )

I was supposed to be getting something of an early night so I could be up and ready to womble my way down to Rita Ranch to provide a little bit of help to friends who are moving to California. Best laid plans gang aft agley, as the poet mused, and my plans ganged agley with enthusiasm, or, as they tell you, life is what happens when you're busy ( Read more... )

Last year my then-girlfriend and I got into watching Masterchef Australia...which was entirely my fault, as she was watching the US version, and didn't really like it -- and I can't stand it. If I recall correctly, I'd actually started withing Masterchef Australia by this point, not realizing the haul I was in for -- unlike every other Masterchef ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of reading Marvel Essential Iron Man Vol.1, which collects the first years of Iron Man appearances in Tales Of Suspense. While I've been amusing myself with the earnest lunacy of Stan Lee and company's first stumbling steps in spy-fi, something came up that I had forgotten in the intervening years since I first read these stories ( Read more... )

I got hold of the six episodes of this Australian tv series last year, and never got around to watching them before the fire. I just did, and aside from finding parts hilarious (I don't usually laugh out loud to any great extent, and did here ( Read more... )

I am reliably informed (for some values of reliably, as this is via a friend in Florida who is getting her reports from The Guardian site) that the Tories are taking a drubbing in the current council elections across England. She opines that the Tories will be sad come morning. I am quite alright with this (also, in the UK it's already morning) as ( Read more... )

I actually pulled off Mount TBR last year (as documented on Goodreads), and even got beyond my stated goal of summiting Everest at one hundred books. The irony of this particular moment was that I celebrated it by promptly announced that, damn it all, I'd go for the Olympus level, which is 150+. With great cheer, I announced the next two books in ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I was here, and I'm honestly not sure I have the words for anything at great length. My life since 2010 has been a series of roller coasters...life, love, lunacy, ll of that. I've lost a partner, had friends die, had my dog drop dead in the doorway, fallen in love several times to no really good end, underwent a retinal ( Read more... )